Addonics Zebra Super Multi Blu-ray and HD DVD Drive Review

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The problem with the whole format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is not choosing the winner—that’s probably still a year or two away. The problem is that if you pick one format, you’ll be missing out on great movies in the other format. Choose Blu-ray, and you miss out on the Matrix Trilogy and Transformers. Chose HD DVD, and no Pirates of the Caribbean for you.

What if you could have both, on your PC?

Korean company LG wants to give you that choice—pick your movies, not your technology. So they’re now shipping the LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blu-ray and HD DVD drive. Unlike the earlier LG GGW-H10, which could burn Blu-ray discs, the Addonics drive is a BD-ROM / HD DVD ROM drive only. It can, however, burn most DVD formats as well as CD and CD-RW discs.

You can find the bare drive for well under $300. In our case, we’re looking at the Addonics external version of the drive, which offers both USB 2.0 and eSATA connections, which is available for $429. Continued…